Developer of data center automation tools Adaptive Computing announced on Thursday a plan to integrate two of its product suites with IBM System x, BladeCenter and iDataPlex server families. Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moad Adaptive Computing Suite are automation solutions for intelligent high-performance computing clusters.

Adaptive integrates Moad tools with IBM's monitoring and provisioning manager Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT) to create a unified operating environment, designed to optimize systems for responsiveness to changing workloads and organizational requirements as well as for simplified cluster management, according to an Adaptive statement.

Integration with xCAT allows Moad to save power by intelligently scheduling workloads, Adaptive said. Moad can read information on hardware power and temperatures collected by xCAT and use it to shift workloads accordingly.

"Moab takes xCAT to the next level by leveraging xCAT's client-server model to take administration from manual and static to automated, assisted and dynamic," Egan Ford, an executive IBM IT specialist, said in a statement. "With Moab and xCAT together, ultra-scale hybrid clouds of bare metal and virtual machines can be created to maximize effective utilization while minimizing power consumed."

Adaptive HPC Suite uses defined policies, service-level agreements and current and projected workload data to automatically change individual nodes' operating systems for optimal cluster performance. The Adaptive Computing Suite works with existing virtualization technologies to improve server utilization, reduce energy costs and boost service levels.

IBM rolled out xCAT in 1999 to support deployment of IBM Linux clusters. The toolkit supports the IBM Roadrunner system at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory - the largest computing installation in the world, according to IBM. The supercomputer was the first in the world to perform more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second.